Love Is Gone, So Am I novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Fitted
I read the invitation twice.
Then I walked to the corner case by the register and looked at the ring on its navy velvet.
Not for sale.
"Gus."
He came out of the back with a watch in one hand and a tiny screwdriver in the other.
I held up the card.
He read it. He put the watch down very carefully.
"The family stone," he said. "Which one?"
"The copy. The one I put in the soup. Somebody fished it out."
"She's going to stand up in front of four hundred people in that ballroom and wear a fake of my grandmother's ring."
"On the night my divorce goes through."
He looked at me.
I took the clerk's letter out of my coat pocket.
It had come on Friday. I still didn't know what I felt about it.
"Final on July twenty-sixth," I said. "That's why she picked the date. Celia never does anything by accident."
Gus sat down on Avis's stool.
"So we don't go," he said. "We let them have their party. We find twenty-three thousand dollars somewhere else."
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